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Word: midnights (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...experiences of a would-be American dope smuggler in the hellish prisons of a Middle Eastern country and his eventual escape make up the plot of Alan Parker's shattering new film, Midnight Express, but to so limit the description of the movie is something akin to samming up Citizen Kane as the filmic biography of a newspaper magnate. Like all extraordinary movies based on real people or actual events, Midnight Express has boldly transcended the limits of its true-life story to bring forth a larger-than-life refinement. The five-year incarceration of Billy Hayes becomes an inspiring...

Author: By Joe Contreras, | Title: Busted at the Border | 11/4/1978 | See Source »

FRIDAY: TSIF prices in Schneider all night. Gong Show during TSIF. A Battle of DJs, beginning 9 pm. Horror Movies and Haunted House, in Harambee House, 12 midnight...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WHAT is to be done at? | 10/26/1978 | See Source »

...obtain a few ice cubes, and the laundry service is Chinese-immaculate and cheap (a shut well ironed for about 50). The hotel has also recognized the F.F.'s paramount problem: What to do after 9 p.m.? Its cavernous eighth floor has been designated Cafe-Bar. Therein until midnight the visitor can eat watermelon or sherbet, sip his choice of poison, from tepid beer to fu-te-ka (vodka), and yak until yawn. Sorry, no floor show, dancing or Hangchow-panky, though such dubious distractions are doubtless only a few short years away...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Report: China Says: Ni hao! | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...hills of Hanover to the SDS centers on the East Coast mustering support for the dying antiwar movement, organizing, demonstrating. He formed the Peoples Bicentennial Commission in an effort to remind Americans of their radical past, producing rushed superficial works like Voices of the American Revolution. He organized the Midnight Ride to Concord in April...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Phoenix from the Ashes | 10/17/1978 | See Source »

Five unidentified youths early Sunday morning assaulted three Harvard Square Theater employees who attempted to stop them from stealing a sign in the theater's lobby, five minutes after the end of a midnight showing of the Rolling Stone's film, "Gimme Shelter...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'Gimme Shelter' Ends in Assault Of Local Theater Ticket Taker | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

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